TheAmerican Revolutionary War(1775–1783) was between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the 13 colonies which became the newly formed United States.
Valentine Sevier married Joanna Goade and settled in what was then Augusta County Virginia, but is now Rockingham County, Virginia.
Valentine and Joanna's children included:
John Sevier (1745),
Valentine Sevier (1747),
Robert Sevier (1747, married Kesiah Robertson/Robinson),
Mary (Polly) Sevier (1753),
Catherine Sevier (1757),
Charles Sevier (1757),
Bethenia Sevier Hawkins (1759, married James Hawkins)
Abraham Sevier (1760, married Mary Little)
Elizabeth Sevier (1762, married William Matlock)
Joseph Sevier (1764), and
Sophia Sevier Peters (1764, married William Peters).
Valentine Sevier was at a court begun and held for the County of Washington on the 23rd February, 1778. He was chosen sheriff.
At the same court, the case of Elijah Robertson vs. Robert Sevier for an assualt was heard. The court ordered that Robert Sevier
be bound to his good behavior and enter Recognizance with two securities in the sum of ten pounds himself (and five pounds each of his security) for his good behavior for the Time and Term of Twelve Months. William Parker and William McNabb entered themselves Robert Sevier's security for his good behavior. Ord. that Robert Sevier be admitted to keep an ordinary in this county at the court house.
In 1780
Valentine Sevier vs. George Dayley.
Debt.
A jury to-wit: David Job, Jas Wray, William McAdoo, Martin Maney, Julius Roberts., Jacob Brown, Jonathan Tipton, Samuel Tate, Robt. Lusk, John Jones, William Cox, Hosea Rose, Sworn.
The Jury assess two hundred pounds damages and six pence costs.
In 1780, John, Robert and Valentine, Jr. were at Kings Mountain. Robert was killed.
Rockingham County, Virginia was established in 1778 from Augusta County. European settlement began in the 1740s.
Fincastle County, Virginia was created in 1772 from Botetourt County and abolished in 1776. It was divided into Montgomery, Washington and Kentucky Counties.
from The Annals of Tennessee by James Gettys McGready Ramsey
On Monday, the 19th of January, 1792, the Indians killed Robert Sevier and William Sevier, sons of Valentine Sevier, who lived at the mouth of Red River, near the present site of Clarkesville; they had gone to the relief of the distressed families on the Cumberland River, who had sent an express for assistance; the officers of Tennessee county could give none.
A part of the crew was on shore getting provisions to be carried in boats to the sufferers; the boats were ahead of them when these young men discovered the enemy, whom they mistook for their own party, the Indians having been seen late in the evening at a considerable distance from that place. Robert Sevier hailed them, who answered they were friends, with which answer being satisfied, he sailed on, and the Indians carelessly began to chop with their hatchets, till the young men in the boats got very near them.
Robert said to the man who was with him in the boats,' these are not our friends, steer off.' The Indians then fired upon them; the man leaped out of the boat, and left them in it about three rods distant from the shore.
Before the 25th, William was found and buried, but Robert met a party of twelve white men, pursued, but did not overtake the Indians. Ou the 16th of the same month, Valentine, a third son of this unfortunate parent, also fell by the hands of the savages; he was in a boat ascending the river, and was fired upon and killed dead in it; two others were wounded, one of them, John Rice, died, and both he and Valentine were buried about sixty miles below the mouth of Red River.
East Tennessee is part of Appalachia. At the end of the French and Indian War, colonists began drifting into the area. In 1769, they first settled along the Watauga River. During the Revolution, the Overmountain Men defeated British loyalists at the Battle of Kings Mountain. The State of Franklin was formed in the 1780s, but never admitted to the Union.
The Cherokeewere indigenous people who lived in the southern Appalachian mountains. European Americans called their towns in eastern Tennessee, the Overhill Towns. The towns included Chota, Tellico and Tanasi.
In 1776, the Cherokee planned to drive settlers out of the Washington District. The settlers were warned and stopped the first attack at Heaton's Station. The second attack was stopped at Fort Watauga. In response to these attacks, the militia burned Tuskegee and Citico.
Colonel John Sevier was born in 1745. He was Valentine Sevier's son.
He married Sarah Hawkins in 1761.
Sarah and John's children included:
Joseph Sevier (1763, married Charity Cawood, Mary Finley and Elizabeth Lowrey),
James Sevier (1764, married Nancy Conway),
John Sevier, Jr. (1766, married Elizabeth Conway, Sarah Richards, and Sophia Garoutte),
Elizabeth Sevier (1768, married William H. Clark),
Sarah Sevier (1770, married Benjamin Brown),
Mary Ann Sevier (1772, married Samuel May and Joshua Carland),
Valentine Sevier (1773, married Mary Arnett, Patience Matlock and Sarah Cooper),
Richard Sevier (1775),
Rebecca Sevier (1778, married John Waddell, Jr.), and
Nancy Sevier (1780, married Benjamin Brown and Walter King).
He married Catharine Sherrill on August 14, 1780 in East Tennessee.
Their children included:
George Washington Sevier (1782, married Catherine Heatherly Chambers),
Ruth Sevier (1783, married Daniel Vertner )
Samuel Sevier (1785, married Jane Rhea)
Joanna Sevier (1784, married Joseph Windel),
Elizabeth Sevier (1790, married William McClellan).
and a step-daughter, Mary Garland,
John died on September 24, 1815, near Fort Decatur, Alabama.
Catherine died on October 2, 1836 at Russellville, Franklin County, Alabama.
Tennessee was admitted to the Union on June 1, 1796. It was initially part of North Carolina.
American colonists continued to use British monetary units, namely the pound, shilling and pence for which £1 (orli) equalled 20s and 1s equalled 12d. In 1792 the dollar was established as the basic unit of currency.
Washington County, Tennessee Marriages
Sevier, Nancy — King, Walter – 19 Feb 1795 [Pension]
Sevier, Rebecca — Waddell, John – 26 Feb 1795 [John Sevier’s Diary]
Sevier, Ruth — Sparks, Richard – 29 Jun 1797 [John Sevier’s Diary]
Sevier, Sarah — Brown, Benjamin – 06 May 1789
